Qualifications

          EXPERIENCED: 30⁺ years of teaching music, kindergarten through college, and
               private piano lessons
              1½ years teaching first grade social studies (half-time);
             ½ year teaching 2^nd grade classroom (half-time)

          ENERGETIC AND ENTHUSIASTIC: Created and directed faculty performing
               ensembles at West End Elementary and GMC, building esprit de corps

          CREATIVE: Composed/created songs and activities each year to teach music
               concepts and other concepts across the curriculum

          PASSIONATE ABOUT CHILDREN AND THEIR EDUCATION: Have spent the past 30+ 
               years of my life dedicated to educating the whole child: heart, soul, and mind.

Georgia Educator Certificate-Number 262663

          Music (P-12) 07/01/2007 to 06/30/2012
          Early Childhood (P-5) 10/27/2007 to 06/30/2012
          Data Collection 07/01/2007 to 06/30/2012

Experience
    
          August 2009 - Present
                Sole Proprietor and Instructor - North Macon Piano Studio

          September 1975 - 2009
               Have taught select private piano students intermittently during my
               public school teaching career

          November 2007- Dec 2009 Blandy Hills Elementary School, Milledgeville, GA
               First grade social studies teacher and 2^nd grade classroom teacher

          1999-2006 Georgia Military College Prep, Milledgeville, GA
               Created and directed choral music program for middle school and high school; directed vocal
               ensembles for literary competition, directed faculty chorus
               Taught exploratory music, grades 6-8
               Taught 7^th grade drama class
               Taught music appreciation to 12^th grade and junior college levels
               Directed high school spring musicals, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Cinderella, HONK!,
               Beauty and the Beast, BIG, the Musical, and the play, Get Smart

          1976-1999, Elementary Music Teacher, Baldwin County Public Schools
                West End Elementary, now Creekside Elementary (1983-1999)
                    Taught classroom music to approximately 500 students, grades k-5
                    Directed 4^th and 5^th grade choruses
                    Directed Christmas musical plays; coordinated and directed talent shows for teachers and
                    students
                    Coordinated and directed 1995 County Wide Concert of all Baldwin County band and chorus
                    students
                    Coordinated International Folk Festivals
                    Co-authored Baldwin County Music Curriculum
                    Created and directed the Teacherrifics, a faculty "show choir" from 1990-1999

               Northside Elementary (1980-1983)
                    Taught classroom music to approximately 600 students, grades k-4
                    Implemented choral program; directed annual Christmas musical

               Northside, Southside and Carver Schools (1978-1980)
                    Served as itinerant music teacher in grades k-6
                    Appointed Peer Teacher Data Collector for the Georgia Department of Education in the
                    assessment of beginning music teachers in Baldwin and surrounding counties

               Northside and Southside Elementary Schools (1976-1978)
                    Served as itinerant music teacher, teaching grades 1-4
                    Began providing laboratory experience for Georgia College practicum students of music
                    education (continuing until 2006)

               Additional Part-time Employment

               September 2006- June 2009 Kindermusik with Charlotte Bearden
                    Taught classes to babies and toddlers and their parents/caregivers at First United Methodist
                    Church in Milledgeville, GA

               2003-Present: Pianist, Harmony Baptist Church

               1999-2003: Pianist, Hardwick Christian Church

               1994-1998: Music Director, Hardwick Christian Church
                    Directed Adult and Children’s Choirs, including cantatas and musicals
                    Coordinated and directed performance of "Liberty", a patriotic musical, by the combined
                    choirs of Hardwick Christian, Hardwick Primitive Baptist and Hardwick Baptist Churches

               1992-1994: Pianist and choir director, Covenant Presbyterian Church

               1981; 1992-1994: Adjunct Instructor, Georgia College and State University
                    Taught music education courses to education majors and music majors

               Georgia Military College Prep High School/Middle School 2000
               Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year 2000
               West End Elementary Teacher of the Year 1987, 1992, & 1995
  
          * Georgia Military College Employee of the Month Sept. 2001
          * Co-authored Georgia Challenge Grant, earning $30,000 for the Baldwin County Public
             Schools Fine Arts Program, 1998-1999
          *Wrote and directed "The Miracle of Evergreen Village", a Christmas musical play written to
             incorporate Orff instruments;
          *Composed over 100 songs and activities used in music and regular classrooms;
          *Composed over 25 songs to teach first and second grade social studies